The "Shams" Center monitored in its monthly report, which it issued today, Sunday, the existence of 160 homes and facilities that have been targeted by the Israeli occupation since the beginning of January.
The following is the text of the report:
Ramallah: The Human Rights and Democracy Media Center "Shams" launched its monthly observatory for the month of January 2021 on demolition, confiscation, eviction and seizure operations against Palestinian establishments, whether religious, tourist, industrial, commercial, educational, official or agricultural, with a focus on residential ones. By "Israel" the occupying power in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which came under the title (Monthly Monitoring Report on Israeli Demolitions and Violations against Palestinian Homes and Establishments). It is noteworthy that the "Shams" Center periodically issues monthly, semi-annual and annual specialized observatories on this type of violations and other violations.
The monitoring report was based on a methodology based on field monitoring by the team and researchers of the "Shams" Center, who monitored and counted Israeli violations against Palestinian facilities during the period 1/1/2021 - 1/31/2021 in all West Bank governorates for the purpose of issuing this monthly observatory. And then work on analyzing, disaggregating and outputting data in the form of tables, according to a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analytical indicator map.
According to the "Shams" Center, during the month of January 2021, the Israeli occupation forces targeted (160) facilities owned by Palestinians, whether by demolishing, confiscating, evicting, or distributing notifications with the intention of targeting these facilities in the future.
The most prominent violations centered on the demolitions, which affected (60) facilities. (3) Of them, their owners were forced to self-demolish them under threat of fines and imprisonment. Meanwhile, the occupation forces confiscated and seized (6) facilities. They were distributed among the governorates of Jerusalem, Hebron and Tulkarm. The occupation forces confiscated two tents, mobile health facilities, and equipment for walks, owned by the citizens: Anas Obeid and Majid Issa Barakat, near the entrance to the village of Nabi Samwil in the Jerusalem governorate, as they were working to establish a park for citizens, and the occupation forces confiscated near the wall The segregated racist near the town of Zita in Tulkarm governorate, (Container) is used as a grocery store owned by the citizen: Mahmoud Tayseer Abu Al-Ezz, and in the village of Al-Rakiz, located southeast of Yatta in the Hebron governorate, a health unit made of tin, owned by the citizen: Muhammad Abu Aram.
As for the notifications, the occupation forces notified (94) facilities for demolition, confiscation or eviction, most of which are residential, in addition to other commercial and agricultural facilities, animal pens and wells for collecting water.
Within this, the Jerusalem Occupation Magistrate’s Court handed Nizam Abu Ramz a decision to evacuate his house in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, for the benefit of the settlers, under the pretext that the land of the house belongs to the Jews of Yemen. Tura, southwest of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, under the pretext of killing a settler. In the Bedouin community near the Khashm Al-Daraj area, east of Yatta, the occupation forces also handed over notifications to evacuate 5 families from the Bedouins (Al-Hathalin and Al-Muhammedeen) from that pastoral area, remove their tents, and transfer their herds of livestock, under the pretext of conducting military exercises.
The first indicator focused on the distribution of facilities that were targeted by demolition, confiscation, eviction, or notifications according to their type, which included this month: houses and residential rooms: (32) establishments, Berksat dwellings: (32) establishments, tent dwellings: (20) establishments, Caravan housing: (5) facility, school, and village council building, commercial facilities: (34), one medical facility, (3) religious facilities, fuel station, (4) agricultural rooms, an agricultural greenhouse, an agricultural pergola, and (3) rooms, facilities and sanitary units, (13) a barn and bark for livestock, a water well, a building floor, (5) retaining walls, and a vegetable stall.
While the second indicator focused on the geographical distribution of violations, monitoring the areas of targeting. The peak of the targeting was in the Jerusalem governorate with (25) facilities that were demolished, followed by the Jenin governorate with (11) facilities. And then Tubas Governorate (8) facilities were demolished.
In view of the notifications, whether of demolition, confiscation, eviction, or stopping construction work and other violations that prevent Palestinians from realizing their right to build, rebuild and invest their facilities, the number of notifications has reached (94) notifications in different regions. The notifications indicate the directions of localization of the upcoming Israeli targets of Palestinian facilities. Nablus, Tubas, and Hebron governorates were the top three governorates in which residents were notified of demolition, eviction, or confiscation.
The third indicator focuses on the target population, since these operations that target Palestinian facilities do not take place in an isolated area from the population. The number of people affected by it during the month of January reached (74) at least, including a large number of children, reaching (37) children, and a number of women, the groups that suffer most in these cases.
The fourth indicator focused on the arguments used by "Israel", the occupying power, in its attempt to legalize the crime. Given the arguments, the number of facilities that were demolished under the pretext of building without a permit in Areas (C) reached (55) facilities out of (60) facilities that were demolished, and (5) facilities that were targeted under the pretext of their presence in an Israeli military training zone.
As for the notifications, most of the arguments were under the pretext of not licensing and building in areas (C), in addition to other arguments. The occupation forces notified Ali Salim Musa, from the town of Al Khader, south of Bethlehem, to stop construction in the Jabal Abu Soda area, claiming that the area is archaeological The Jerusalem Occupation Magistrate’s Court handed Nizam Abu Ramz a decision to evacuate his house in Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, for the benefit of the settlers, = under the pretext that the land of the house belongs to the Jews of Yemen, and the Israeli occupation army decided to demolish the house of the prisoner Muhammad Qabha, which consists of two floors In the village of Tura, southwest of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, under the pretext of killing a settler, which falls under the policy of collective punishment under the pretext of carrying out acts of resistance against the occupation. In the Bedouin community near the Khashm Al-Daraj area, east of Yatta, the occupying forces received notifications to evacuate 5 families from the Bedouin (Al-Hathalin and Al-Muhammadin) from that pastoral area, remove their tents, and transfer their herds of livestock, under the pretext of conducting military exercises.
The last indicator reviewed the operations of "self-demolition" and the persistence of oppression by forcing the Palestinians themselves to demolish their installations, foremost of which are their homes under threat of heavy fines. All facilities are in the Jerusalem governorate, which are two houses and a building plot.
In Beit Hanina, the occupation authorities forced the citizen: Fawaz Abu Hammad to personally demolish his house, in which 7 people live, after notifying him earlier, in order to avoid paying heavy fines in the event that the occupation authorities carry out the demolition, under the pretext of not being licensed.
And the occupation authorities in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood in the city of Jerusalem forced the citizen Hatem Shaheen al-Salaymah to demolish part of his house, after notifying him earlier, in order to avoid paying heavy fines in the event that the occupation authorities carry out the demolition, under the pretext of not being licensed, and he lives in it with his wife and children The three are, the oldest is 11 years old, and the youngest is 4.
In the Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood of Jerusalem, the occupation authorities forced the citizen Amjad Jaabis to personally demolish the floor of a building (under construction), and also removed the barbed wire fence surrounding his land, after notifying him earlier, in order to avoid paying heavy fines in the event that the occupation authorities Demolition, under the pretext of not being licensed.
Finally, the Monthly Observatory was attached at its conclusion to a detailed table of all violations during January 2021, with details of the names of citizens or entities whose rights were violated as a result of the Israeli operations against Palestinian facilities, whether they were demolition, seizure, confiscation, evictions, or notifications.
